Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-01
THE LAKE GALE.
How the Schooner White Star
Was Wrecked-Sufering OF
Two Men.
Terrible Wreck of Two Freight TToins
at a Curve on the B. & U. Near
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Three Trainren Killed and ETTs Wounded
Fatalities Near Macon, Mo.-Pro-
psller Ashore.

nbE of the schooner White Star, ashore oR
Point Pelee. cells the following story OF the
disaster: '''Iy.ere was a fearful sea on all
"Wednesday night, and T7lth 1T was a th1ck
dog that m31e it impossible to see taght
At,six O'Clock Thursday morning thought
we were <lear the dummy light OFF Point
Relee but it was black as ink outside and
we could not locate ourselves. Suddenly
there was crash Gad the vessel went ON
head first. She kesled over and around,
and the big seas <snade a sweep OF her
decks 1t was a rcoS bottom, which ground
right ehrough her, and she began fill
ing.in few moments after she struck.
There was one yawl boat aboard and we
managEed to get this TO the boats side.
There were seven of us, and the little yawl
would hold but ftVe, and two had 10 stay on
beard Ny brother, the captain, chose to
stay, and with fim stayed one of the sail
,ors. We got the boat down to the water,
but the waves tbeat it against the side OF
vessel and threatened to stave it in. AS
the ifth man slid down the line the yawd
,capsized and we were thrown into the
water. Some of the boys got on top of the
'upturned yawl and others caught DRIFT.
We knocked around until daylight,
and were finally beached, all OF
JUS alive. The vessel could DE seen about
fifty rods out leaning overland beating fear
fully. We. could see my brother and the
sailor up in the rigging waving their hands
and shouting for help. About thirty men had
collected on the shore, but they could gave
us no assistance as they were without boats
or tackle.' Murphy said the men would
freeze to death If the boats should not be
sent to them at once. Both were rescued
by fishermen next morning. The captain
is apparently none the worse for his nine
teen hours exposure, but Hunter suffered
terribly from cold, and is On al critical con-
dition. The vessel has broken in two and
IS total loss. She was owned by Cum
mings 4 Griffin of Oswego, n. Y, and had
IL cargo of COO tons of coal for Detroit.
THE FATAL CURVE.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 26-Two freight
trains on the Wheeling division of the Balti-
more & OHIO railroad colllded near Coch-
rane Mills. fifteen miles from this city
about 1915 O'Clock yesterday morning.
Both trains were completely demolished
and three men killed and five others in
jured. One of the killed was William He'd
diman, q fireman, OF Wheeling. The two
others are still under the debris and their
names are not known. The injured
were: Thomas Gates, engineer, crushed
and bruised, seriously; Frank Apple
by, fireman, hurt about the head and body,
not dangerous; Peter McGann, fireman,
head badly cut. arm broken and body
bruised, quite serious; Thomas f. Tam,
brakeman, cut and bruised, not danger
ously; Patrick Geff, engineer, head badly
cut, foot mashed and cut about the body,
very serions. There appear to have been
no orders issued as to which train was to
lay over at Fin eyvllle for the other to
pass. The trains Were running at
a high rate OF speed, and they
rounded curve near the sta
ton they came into view too late
to be saved. A moment later they came to-
gether with terrible force Both locome-
tives were lifted from the rails and thrown
n side ComnlnfalU Iuranlya6 The ar-
were all deraled and reduced almost to
kindling wood and the debris piled up high
around the locomotives. The main track
was torn up for a considerable distance and
completely blockaded. There was not a
moments warning and both crews were
caught in the wreck. Three of the train
men were buried from sight. They were
almost instantly killed.
PRoPELLERs ASHORE.
CHEBoYGAN, Mich, Nov. 26.-About
eleven o'clock Thursday night at the
height of the gale, steamer blew signals
of distress, but nothing could reach her, as
the storm was simply terrible Yesterday
morning upward of 300 barrels of flour
were picked up on the beach, and it has
since 6een learned that the boat was the
propeller Albany, which is ashore at the
foot of Bots Blanc island and is full of
water. The crew was saved. The barge
Montgomery is near her, also in bad shape,
and two large steamers are reported as
ashore below Cheboygan light house. All
went on during the storm.
TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS
MACON, Mo-, Nov. 26.-Henry Barnes, col
ored miner, while walking the railroad
track from Bevier here, was overtaken on
the East Fork bridge by 4 freight train,
which threw him into the dry bed of the
creek, forty five feet below, and injured
him so that he can not survive
Yesterday s. S. Winn, Il prominent
Round Grove farmer, was tossel by bull,
which then dragged him eighty feet and
bruised him fearfully. Though unable to
walk he managed to crawl nearly home
across his pasture. The injuries are con-
sidered fatal.
Cause of kebler's Suicide.
CINCINNATI, Nov. pa morning paper
says that il has been discovered that the
lafe lEhn rlaS 4 lhart Eohlor.